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Who This Video Is For

If you wish to learn and build a 3D printer from scratch, this course is for you. Even if you have ordinary technical skills, you can build and run an open source 3D printer with help of this video. It will definitely be an advantage if you know some 3D modelling in any program.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction to RepRap

How a 3D Printer Works

3D Printing Workflow

Overview of the i3 Berlin 3D Printer Design

Tools and Parts

Building the Y-unit

Mounting the Threaded Rods and Power Supply

Mounting the Aluminium Plates and the Y-motor

Mounting the Y-carriage and the Timing Belt

Adjusting the Parallels

Building the XZ-unit

Mounting the X Axis

Mounting the Z Axis

Mounting the Timing Belt

Wiring Up the 3D printer

Wiring the Power Supply

Assembly of the Main Units

Wiring the Y-unit

Wiring the Z-unit

Wiring the X-unit and the Extruder

Wiring the HeatBed

Calibrating the Printer

Mount the End Stop Magnets and M5 Rods

Software and Communication

Assemble the Extruder

Test and Mount the Extruder

Calibrating the Movements of the Printer

Mount and Calibrate the Print Platform

Print in 3D

Filament and Printer Settings

Print Settings

First Layer

Dual Extrusion

Operate the 3D Printer

Experiments and Alternatives

Cura

Kisslicer

Filaments

Print Platform Surface

Extruders

The Future of Open Source 3D Printing

Troubleshooting

Software Issues in Windows, Mac, and Linux

Layer Shift

Oozing

Extruder Is Not Working

What You Will Learn

Understand the evolution of RepRap and the dynamics of open hardware innovation

Get to know the different print materials and how to make multimaterial objects

Explore KISSlicer and Cura path generator

Experiment with alternative solutions and software

Troubleshoot and prevent printing problems with ease

In Detail

3D printers are designed to build solid three-dimensional objects of any shape using a digital model. This amazing technology will shape the future and as one of the first low-cost 3D Printers, RepRap have made this a democratic technology. RepRap stands for Replicating Rapid Prototyper, and the technology is capable of self-replicating most of its parts, which can then be used to build another RepRap printer. The open source movement made this revolution possible and you can be a part of it.

This video course teaches you how to make a 3D printer for yourself and calibrate and adjust it perfectly. You will get to know how to solve and prevent common problems and discover alternative solutions to tailor your 3D printer to your liking and needs. You will learn how to assemble parts for your 3D printer and build it with ordinary tools and skills. The course starts off with assembling of the Y-Unit and the XZ-Unit before moving on to the extruder and wiring. Next, you will be shown how to execute some simple calibrations and suddenly you're printing in 3D with your very own 3D printer. By the end of the video, you will be a junior 3D printing expert. This 3D printer used for demonstration in this course is especially designed for easy assembly and use, and gives you a head start in building your own 3D-printers for now and for the future.

Authors

Bram de Vries

Bram de Vries is a mechanical engineer and social scientist dedicated to open hardware. He has previously worked at Demotech (www.youtube.com/user/DemotechDesign), developing pro-poor technologies in Guatemala, Ethiopia, and India.

The overarching aim of his work is to open up innovations and make them accessible. For the last four years, his focus has moved from water pumps to open source 3D printing. He also tutors Blender courses.

Morris Winkler

Morris Winkler is a software developer from Germany and has worked for several years on mobile computing platforms. He also helped create the Arm processor port for the Debian/GNU operating system. From 2004 to 2010, he worked in Barcelona, Spain, with Xarxa Sense Fils to create a co-operative Internet service provider and helped cover the Catalan capital with a freely accessible wireless network. The project has since joined Guifi.net, the biggest Open Access wireless network on the European continent. In 2011, he began to use open source hardware for 3D Printing, and in 2012 started a company with Bram de Vries to support enthusiasts and newcomers to the scene. Since then, he has developed an enhanced version of the Prusa i3 3D Printer and follows a few other projects based around open source 3D printing.

Sam Muirhead

Sam Muirhead is a videographer focused on open source, open knowledge, and the maker movement. Having started making music videos in New Zealand, and after that moving to Berlin in 2009, Sam got involved in documentaries and web video. In 2012, he started the project “Year of Open Source”, whose idea was to live as “open source” as possible. This included adapting the concept of open source to every aspect of life. The results of his research and projects are documented in blog posts and videos on yearofopensource.net. He uses only free/libre/open source software for video production, and runs workshops in video editing with Kdenlive. He prefers to license his work with free culture licenses and aims to incorporate more open source hardware into his workflow. See more of his work at www.cameralibre.cc.

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